Hateful comments and disinformation had 'increased particularly' since Elon Musk took over ownership of the platform last year, FADA wrote on X.
FRANKFURT - Germany's federal anti-discrimination agency said Wednesday it was quitting X, formerly known as Twitter, because of "an enormous rise" in hate speech.
"Due to the enormous increase in trans and queer hostility, racism, misogyny, anti-Semitism and other misanthropic content, in our opinion, X is no longer an acceptable environment" for a public body, it said.
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